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15 Best Beach, Pool and Hotel Vacation Summer Reads for 2025
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items It's summertime, the season many of us like to read thrillers, rom-coms, light reads and frothy novels. Whether you're reading at a mountain cabin, in a lake house, on the beach, by the pool or at a fancy hotel, here are some new “beach reads” books ...
Wealthy neighbors vacation on an island, throw parties, get into drama and find out secrets. This sounds like a fun read I wouldn't have to think about too hard!
Mansion Beach: Family Novel of Love & Secrets
This book takes place around a snooty upper crust school in New York. Three wealthy socialite moms all have kids in the school. They're friends and throw lots of theme parties. Then an outsider named Sofia shows up and insinuates herself into their c...
Mean Moms: A Novel (July 2025)
A vacationer in Morocco comes to The Surf House on a cliff, full of ex-pat surfers. She discovers that a year ago, a woman her age disappeared after also visiting The Surf House. This thriller, like so many before it, will show the protagonist uncove...
The Surf House by Lucy Clarke (June 2025)
Every year, four friends meet on a remote island in Sweden. They drink beer, dance, and take a break from their busy lives. The island's location is a secret known only to these four friends.
Now it's ten years later, and Tessa Nilsson, a true crim...
The Bachelorette Party by Camilla Sten (June 2025)
Here's a beach read set on a cruise ship. A widow, Mrs. Blossom, used to assist a private investigator. Now she finds a winning lottery ticket in a parking lot, and books a cruise through France. She meets a handsome man, Allan, on her transatlantic ...
Murder Takes a Vacation by Laura Lippman
Here's a lighthearted romance where a woman agrees to pretend to be the author of a romance book. Sparks fly between her and the author's talent agent, Charlie.
Slow Burn Summer by Josie Silver (June 2025)
This sounds like such a fun read! It's going to be a streaming series soon too, starring Elle Fanning and Nicole Kidman. Margo is the child of a Hooter's waitress and a pro wrestler. She enrolls at her local community college, and proceeds to have a...
Margo's Got Money Troubles: A Novel
Sybil gets left at the altar, but goes on her honeymoon anyway, enjoying the hotel amenities. Then she sees her ex walk in with a new "colleague." She grabs a guy named Sebastian and asks him to pretend to be her fiancee. This sounds like a fun read ...
The Four Engagement Rings of Sybil Rain
This romance has a nice hook. A meet-cute, surf and sand, a blocked songwriter, a singer with a beautiful voice and a telepathic connection, and an arrogant man who might turn out to be that singer.
Sounds Like Love by Ashley Poston
A plus-sized business tycoon decides to stop worrying about her body and start dating like crazy. Will she date a businessman, the mailman, or ? Here's a light and breezy summer romance beach read.
Sunny Side Up by Katie Sturino
This looks like a delightful and heartwarming comedic romance to read in summer! Gigi Jenkins is broke and unemployed, so she has to return to her childhood small town of Mackinac Island and live with her meddling divorced mother.
Her mother immed...
Summer on Lilac Island by Lindsay MacMillan
I always enjoy a good romance set in a winery or vineyard. In this one, Jade Gardner has artist's block, and accidentally agrees to be a bridesmaid at her ex-boyfriend's wedding. She then meets Everett Rhodes, who is in the process of taking over his...
Love Among Vines by Madison Score
I felt like I wanted just one more fun romance read this summer. This one is set on Martha's Vineyard, where attorney Val is on medical leave for stress and panic attacks. The lovely scenery and atmosphere prompts her creative juices and she begins w...
Morning Glory Girl by Maria Lenihan
Thirty-five-year-old Edie Pepper is a wine-loving, reality TV-obsessed copywriter. She has spent years swiping for love with zero luck,
until her high school ex suddenly appears as the heartthrob lead on The Key, America’s biggest dating show. And h...
Fan Favorite by Adrienne Gunn
Time to take a break from romances and read a heartwarming book! Here's what this one is about:
When orphaned teen July arrives in the quiet island town of Ebey’s End, grocer Anita Odom is the reluctant guardian no one asked for - least of all Anita...
The Peculiar Gift of July by Ashley Ream